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Join us in an examination of the bushranger who is said to be the inspiration for the folk song, ‘The Wild Colonial Boy’, John Doolan (Dooling). The youngest bushranger convicted in Victoria, and given one of the longest prison sentences.

In 1836 the town that would be Melbourne was little more than a scattering of tents near the Yarra. Less than a generation later it was home to 125,000 people and about to overtake Sydney as the largest colonial city. The rise of Melbourne as a New World city was the wonder of the age,